at x=11/8 the bottom goes to 0, right? But coming from the right, the bottom is neg, as is the top so it goes to inf. Coming from the left, the bottom is pos and the top is neg so it goes to minf.
Make sense?

Yeah, because it will go to infinity or negative infinity. You're approaching an asymptote, not an actual point. The graph will just shoot up or down. But the way to see whether it shoots up or down is to test points on each side of the asymptote.

Kinda, yeah. I would just pick a point really close to the asymptote on each side. If it's really close, your number will either be really high in the positive direction or really high in the negative direction.

I would just personally pick numbers on each side of the asymptote that are very close to it. If they're close enough, the answer should tell you pretty clearly if you're going way negative or way positive. Maybe the others can explain better x_x

look, when x is near 11/8 but more, 11 - 8x is gonna be negative. neg over neg is pos.
when x is near 11/8 but less, 11 - 8x is gonna be pos. neg over pos is neg.
In both cases, 11 - 8x is headed towards 0 as x goes to 11/8.

I guess I was right and confused myself -_- Well, my advice would to just do what I tried to explain. If you can test points on both sides of the asymptote and see theyre really positive or really negative, that you should tell you your answer. As to how you didn't get an undefined when you plugged in 11/8, I'm not sure?

\[\large \lim_{x\to11/8^+} \frac{-29x}{11-8x} \qquad\to\qquad \frac{39.875}{0}\]
Plugging the fraction directly in shows us that we're approaching this form.
Since we're approaching a zero in the denominator, it means there's an asymptote at x=11/8.
We need to figure something out though.
Are we approaching positive or negative infinity?
Well our numerator is negative.
How about our denominator?
When x is a tiny bit bigger than 11/8, is the denominator negative or positive?

Yes, very good!
Because \(\large -8x\) is slightly larger than \(\large 11\) when we plug in a value larger than 11/8.
So \(\large 11-8x\) is giving us a negative value when we approach from the larger side.

think of the function 1/x. when x goes to zero, the function goes to inf from the right because x is positive and it goes to negative infinite from the left because x is negative. the limit doesn't exist because it goes to 2 different places when coming from the left and right.
You're problem is the same except it goes to 0 on the bottom when x =11/8. So the limit won't exist at x=11/8 if the limit goes to 2 different places coming from the left and right.
11-8x=0 when x=11/8. But if x>11/8, 11-8x is negative and if x<11/8, 11-8x is positive. This is how you determine where it's heading as you approach the zero from either side.

\[\lim_{x \rightarrow a}f \left( x \right)=c \iff \lim_{x \rightarrow a ^{+}}f \left( x \right)=\lim_{x \rightarrow a ^{-}}f \left( x \right)=c\]
This says the limit exists if and only if the limit from the left and right are the same.
You can have different left and right limits, in which case the overall limit will not exist.
For example, let \[f \left( x \right)=\frac{ 1 }{ \left( x-3 \right) }\]
in order to determine \[\lim_{x \rightarrow 3}f \left( x \right)\] we need to look at what happens on the left and right as x approaches 3.
\[\lim_{x \rightarrow 3^{+}}\frac{ 1 }{ \left( x-3 \right) }=+\infty\]because \[\left( x-3 \right)>0, \forall x>3\].
Likewise, \[\lim_{x \rightarrow 3^{-}}\frac{ 1 }{ \left( x-3 \right) }=-\infty\]because \[\left( x-3 \right)<0, \forall x<3\].
The bottom is going to 0 as x gets closer and closer to 3. But coming from above 3 (like 3.1, 3.01, 3.001), the bottom is still positive as it goes to zero. yetcoming from below 3 (like 2.9, 2.99, 2.999) the bottom is still negative as it goes to zero.
I hope that helps cause it was alot to type.

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For all of these evaluate the top and bottom separately and them bring them together.
the bottom is always positive, no matter what side you come from. That's because you're squaring the bottom. The top is always going to be negative.
Thus all of them will be negative infinity. Do you see?